Totally created and modeled in Blender 2.83 alpha
Design by Damien Rohrbach. The other renders are a mix between diferent renders, some made with CYCLES and others made with LUXCORE.
This 3d model is ready for 3D print. Jewel will be made in rose gold, diamonds and pink tourmalines.
I made this montage I mixed something like 20 images to achieve the ocean view for the shrimp, hope it works ok
Thanks! I know, during the process it felt creepy from time to time, I wasn’t sure if I was modeling an alien monster or an actual jewel, I even thought changing the idea. But well, glad you liked my little monster.
hey, nice work ! relly dig it.
i love the shading.
i am curious, how much of the shading was post production ?
can u give us some tipps for the shading ?
I made 3 different renders. CYCLES gives more light to the gemstones,
but the dispersion is tricked. LUXCORE gives the realistic result, with dispersion
and less light, as it would be in reality. The post production is a very simple mix
with different transparencies between the renders and the vignette effect (post was done in a simple 2D software).
About the shading, the scene has only one light source and the HDR background.
As you can see, the HDR file makes a huge difference. For the gemstones it’s all about the IOR,
for the rest, floor has tiny bump and displacement, metal has bump. AO is activated for the scene.
Materials are created for CYCLES and for LUXCORE. Each renderer produces some artifacts, so mixing the renders helped minimize those.
But I said darker is real, like LuxCore does it and also adds a correct dispersion even in dark areas (you know I love Luxcore). Gemstones where fine, in this occasion I just wanted to experiment with mixing different results from different render engines, because they deliver slightly different results in bumps, refractions etc… I think it did enhance the overall result.
I mixed something like 20 images to achieve the ocean view for the shrimp, hope it works ok
I know, during the process it felt creepy 
from time to time, I wasn’t sure if I was modeling an alien monster or an actual jewel, I even thought changing the idea. But well, glad you liked my little monster.
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